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Piano Quintet
2024
- Program Notes
- Press is roughly 45’ long, in three sections. The strings each have a different microtonal tuning, and play mostly harmonics and dampened by heavy metal mutes. This quartet dominates the work, with the piano mostly providing resonance behind their harmonies and textures. Like it’s sister piece, Solo for Cello, that was also premiered at Wigmore Hall in October 2022, Press acts like a fragile molto perpetuo, spinning ghostly fragments out through stumbling rhythmic shapes, pulling the listener along as the music flickers in and out of concrete presence. Although informed by slow moving and long-form music associated with practices ranging from deep-listening to ambient and drone, Press fills these spacious moulds with hyperactive, virtuosic, and relentless music. Dominated by bent arpeggios and splintered pointillism, the piece presents panels of knotted patterns that constantly expand and contract on an almost imperceptible level. Mechanical repetition is shunned in favour of imperfect reoccurrence. One’s evolving sense of expectation and increasingly focused perception create the subtle drama of the piece.
- Recording Notes
Recorded by Mark Knoop at City University, London.
Mixed by Jack Sheen.
Mastered by Nick Moroz.
- Record Label
- The Trilogy Tapes
- Performer Credits
- Apartment House
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